Terminal clip for electrical conductors.



A. KLINGNEFL.

TERMINAL CLIP FOH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14. m2.

1 1 58,930, Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

W z'nesaes Jhventor am om ADOLBH KL INGNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORTO A. R. MOSLER & 00., 0F MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

TERMINAL CLIP FOR ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Application flled November 14, 1912; Serial No. 731,318.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADOLPII KLINGNER, acitizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan,in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Terminal Clips for Electrical Conductors, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a terminal clip for electricconductors which will be very simple and novel in construction,inexpensive to manufacture, and which may be quickly connected to anddisconnected from its terminal post.

A further object is to provide a terminal clip of the above characterwhich may either be frictionally engaged with its terminal post orinterlocked therewith as may be desired.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of myimproved terminal clip in its position for frictionally engaging aterminal post, the terminal clip being shown secured to the end of anelectric conductor. Fig. 2 is a detail side view of the same. Fig. 3 isa transverse section taken in the plane of the line AA of Fig. 2. Fig.4: is a view similar to Fig. 3, with the terminal clip shown as interlocked with the terminal post. Fig. 5 is an inverted section taken inthe lane of the line BB of Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of theblank from which the terminal clip is formed.

The terminal post is shown herein as a snark plug, its screw-threadedconducting wire being denoted by 1, its insulator by 2, and nuts by 3and 4. The nut 4:, which coacts with the terminal clip, is herein shownas comprising a base, a head and a neck connecting the head and base.

The electric conductor is herein shown as comprising a core 5 ofelectric conducting wire strands and an insulated covering 6 therefor.The terminal clip is made of resilient sheet metal and comprises a bodyportion 7 having an outer pair of wings 8, 9, and an inner pair of wings10, 11. The body portion 7 is further provided with a loop 12 strucktherefrom, and a hole 13.

The terminal clip may be secured to the conductor by passing the core 5through the loop 112, and pinching the core between the loop and bodyportion, and wrapping the inner pair of wings 10 and 11 around theinsulated covering 6. The free end of the core may be further secured tothe clip by solder 14. The outer edges of the outer pair of wings 8 and9 are provided with shallow recesses 15 and 16, preferably with'roundedcorners. The wings 8 and 9 are turned inwardly toward each other,leaving a space between the body portion 7 and the inner walls of thewings, for the reception of the head of the nut 4, and also leavingbetween their edges an open channel having contracted portions and anintermediate enlarged portion due to the recesses 15 and 16, formed inthe outer edges of the wings. The parts are so proportioned that thecontracted portions of the channel, formed by the inwardly turned wings,are less in width than the diameter of the neck of the terminal post nut4 and the enlarged intermediate portion is substantially the same as thediameter of said neck of the terminal post nut.

It will thus be seen that the terminal clip may be frictionally engagedwith the terminal post nut, either by forcing the neck of the nut 4through the outer contracted portion or the inner portion of thechannel, formed between the inwardly turned wings, into the enlargedportion, the rounded corners of the wings facilitating the insertion ofthe neck of the nut.

If it is desired to lock the terminal clip to the terminal post, theconducting wire 1 may be extended a suflicient distance beyond the headof the nut 4 to project through the hole 13 in the-body portion of theterminal clip. The terminal clip cannot then be removed withoutunscrewing the nut 4 a sufficient distance to withdraw the end of theconducting wire 1 from the hole 13.

It will be seen that whether the terminal clip is frictionally engagedor interlocked with the terminal post, it will be free to swivelthereon.

What I claim is:

A terminal clip comprising a body portion having an inner pair of wingsadapted to engage the insulated covering of the electric conductingwire, a loop struck upwardly from the body for receiving and pinchingthe wire to the body, and an outer pair of in presence of two witnesses,this 30th day downwardly and inwardly turned wings and of October, 1912.

a hole in the body between said win 's for n t the reception of theterminal post scr w for ADOLI II KLINGNLR' 5 interlocking'the clip withthe post. Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l Gnonon BARRY,

as my invention, I have signed my name (3. S. SUNnmmN.

